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Reeally starting to warm to Smillie for our first pick.

Not a fan of Reid at all to be honest. Whilst it's good to show you can win the footy at junior level, when you're 180cm slow midfielder you've got to have some sort of athletic trait that can separate you from the rest of the other elite mids, and in my opinion he doesn't have any. He's not quick, doesn't have that burst from stoppages and is on the slight side of his physical profile. Reminds me exactly of Hunter Clark who's an ordinary AFL player.

Take your medication and go have a laid down old fella.

Why would his father spin it different if Simon rang him? He's as honest as they come as is mother Michelle. They tell you how it is. The family felt the club treated Oliver during last year's saga with absolute care and professionalism. They were proud of the club in the way they wrapped support around because he simply went of the rails and even to the point where they both had to drive down and spend a few a few days with him as they were genuinely concerned for his welfare. This year, not so much. The whole Gary Pert situation completely blindsided them. Even in his exit meeting there was no discussion of a trade, it was all about getting his body right, completing his off season program with the goal of being fit ready to go come day one of pre season. I know one part of the reason to get to Geelong was pure lifestyle and needing to escape the bright lights or Melbourne. At the end of the day he's the boy from the country who still has incredible strong ties to his country roots. He's desperate to stay out of media headlines. The other part was obviously Geelongs leadership success and strong on field culture.

We won't be using our first pick on a tall.

Lol.. he's not going to publicity come out express a desire that he wanted to leave. He played a straight bat and exactly the answer you'd expect from someone that either had every intention of wanting to leave or was at least putting some serious consideration into it. Was speaking with an ex colleague last Thursday who worked with the Murray Bushrangers and is from Shepparton way. He knows his Dad Steve very well. His old man confirmed to him that Oliver and his family desperately wanted to leave for Geelong, but due to our high demand, Geelong could not cater to our needs. The asking price was too much for Geelong. The Oliver family/camp are incredibly disgruntled with the Dees in how this has all unfolded. Similar to the Petracca situation, there is some serious amending of the bridges that will need occur over the off season. You can spin whatever narrative you want about the media, but Oliver absolutely wanted to leave Melbourne.

His after trade period press conference interview with the media.

Tim Lamb has said we won't be going down the delisted free agent path this year. Put a line through him.

Genuinely thought he was going to be a star forward for us after 2018. As others have point out, the moment he'd drop his head his confidence would be shot to the point where he looked like his emotions was going to spill over. Good luck to him.

Armstrong at 5 is still too much of a reach. I don't rate him at all, I'd be disappointed if we picked him at 5.

Both different, Langfords ability to play as a marking forward and score goals is why I have him ahead.

Anyone check in on @bluey?

Any news on Joel Smith?

Beat me to it. Imagine getting a Cooper Hynes and Jobe Shanahan for instance on top of a Langford/Smith/Draper/ Smillie with pick 5 🤤

I'm pretty sure I read that we'll potentially place Mentha on our Cat B list.

Andrew might be the one we take with our late pick if he gets a bid.

Actually a good interview by Lamb. So as it stands we have Smith, Tomlinson and Hore out of contract. From a list point of view where that leave us for list spots if say Tomlinson and Smith were delisted??

No that's entirely incorrect. McKay was still crashing packs at under 18 level, was doing it each week with Gippsland Power. Cadman is vanilla and will be nothing more then a good ordinary forward. And who exactly are these competitive forwards that they've brought in? Schache? Jefferson? Fullarton? For me, Armstrong lacks intensity and second efforts. I see too much of Jefferson and Weideman in him. Not only that, hes a double grabber. I've watched games this year where whilst he puts himself in good easy position, he either doesn't complete his marks or double grabs.

Trade period officially done. No Derksen.

This is why Armstrong is a big no no for me. Lacks competitiveness and reminds me too much of Sam Weideman.

Club doesn't owe anyone with any special treatment. Otherwise Nathan Jones would be a premiership player. Regardless of whether you're son of a gun or not, I want to recruit players who show glimpse of being potential AFL standard. I don't see it with Noah at all unfortunately.

He's not AFL standard in my opinion and I wouldn't be offering him a rookie spot. Save it for Riak Andrew.

I'm here waiting. I think your sources have stitched you up here brother..... Cover letter was just a gimmick from Seek.com